PSA Google Pixel 7A for £59

I think it checks out.

https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/google-pixel-7a?cid=PAIDSEARCH_Google_Handsets+%7C%7C+Google+%7C%7C+Google+Pixel+7a+%7C%7C+Combined_Google+-+Google+Pixel+7a+-+Core+-+E_google+pixel+7a_43700076355914269&affiliate=Adwords&&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqdqvBhCPARIsANrmZhP5qIMLUwpGOzSuIvxJINQex0oDX71zxhx1PuYSQ2J11-E2_E951gwaAqo7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

So £15 minus the equivalent 80gb Sim only deal at £10 = £5. £5 x 24 months = £120 – £70 Topcashback = £50 plus £9 upfront = £59.

And you actually get 100gb, rollover and roaming included.

There is also a version of the deal that includes Pixel Buds A series for £2/month more so £48.

Sense check me please.

£14.99/month here

<edit> I guess I mis understand, you are discounting this at £10/month.

Probably this goes up at 3% + inflation or something each year so probably a bit more and you are stuck in a contract for 24 months.</edit>

Yes I rounded the £14.99 up to £15 for clarity.

Yes sure but the £10 is very competitive for a roaming monthly cost.

You’re right about inflation, it will be triggered once in April 25 and should add £18 to the overall cost rather than £12 sim only. So it’s not £59, it’s £66 at worst. Still a small fraction of the £309 heavily discounted price on Amazon.

But yes stuck with a 24 month contract. No real detriment with that is there?

Yes sure but the £10 is very competitive for a roaming monthly cost.

If you need 100GB/month probably. I’m on lebara rolling contract for 6.90 12gb roaming and smarty 50gb (not sure if it’s roaming) for 8/month.

Still a decent deal even accounting for this but a little more expensive than it looks.

Doah – ID network AKA Three I believe. So not even a smidge of signal where I live so no good.

Yes roughly. There will be an increase in the 14.99/month from April ’25 but otherwise yes, very good deals on pixel devices at cpw.

I find ID and parent network Three a bit ropey for coverage and if you have 5g speeds can often be slow slow slow.  They do have WiFi calling but again it’s a bit ropey (unless you have absolutely no signal ID and Three seem to prefer attempting to use the mobile network rather than WiFi).

So £15 minus the equivalent 80gb Sim only deal at £10 = £5

Care to explain that for the benefit of the hard of thinking?

Yes sure. You need data/mn/txt anyway so you either pay £300 for the phone and then £10/month Sim only (OK a little less in some cases). Or pay £15 (and a bit more inflation for the pendants ;-)) which already includes data etc. So the actual cost of the phone in that £15 is £5.

I won’t get into the net opportunity cost which probably offsets for the inflation excess and then some as that is very pedantic 😂.

Ah, gotcha. Ta.

 I won’t get into the net opportunity cost which probably offsets for the inflation excess and then some as that is very pedantic 😂.

To be even more pedantic, I think you are referring to the time value of money (more money in your pocket today as you pay over the duration of the contract) rather than net opportunity cost (value of most profitable investment minus value of investment chosen to pursue).

I was comparing a typical 4% OC associated to a mortgage or not getting 4% on a saving account on £300 to that same metric based on the compounded cumulative OC of the £5/month over 24 months. So that’s probably not the definition of net OC.

I feel I have exposed myself to even more pedantry 😂

JUST TELL ME HOW MUCH THE ****’ PHONE IS!

😉

😂. IT’S IN THE F’ING TITLE.

…ish.

Timely, my Daughter bought one of these from John Lewis yesterday for £300 but she has a lousy Sim contract with about 5GB.   Ordered this tonight and will return the JL purchase.  TCB only tracking at £20 though, landing page on TCB did suggest it should be £70?

@IHN – £14.99 per month

Also, it says this, does that it doesn’t go up next month then?

† Monthly price (including out of bundle charges for Vodafone) will increase every April (from 2025) by the Consumer Price Index rate of inflation + 3.9%

That’s weird. Tbf, even at around £100, it’s still a third of the price. Sometimes TCB updates itself, not sure.

I’m already with ID but SIM only, does anyone know if I still need a PAC code to switch my number over of I got this deal?

Apparently you can’t use a PAC code with the same provider. I’ve ordered though and will see if they can switch my old number over.

Cheers op, I need a new phone as my Moto g9 is slowly dieing…

TCB only tracking at £20 though, landing page on TCB did suggest it should be £70?

Standard practice on tcb where there are multiple different cashback amounts for one retailer. It will get uplifted to the correct amount.

Apparently you can’t use a PAC code with the same provider. I’ve ordered though and will see if they can switch my old number over.

You generally need to do it via another provider. So get the cheapest non-ID PAYG SIM you can find then transfer your current number to that. As soon as that’s completed then transfer it again to your new ID SIM.

You generally need to do it via another provider. So get the cheapest non-ID PAYG SIM you can find then transfer your current number to that. As soon as that’s completed then transfer it again to your new ID SIM.

Ok cheers , I’ll have a look.

I’d consider cash back on a deal like this to be a niceity if it turns up, rather than a guaranteed discount. That said they’re also offering £75 extra trade in value, so that’s £80 for an old non functional Samsung that’s been sitting in a drawer for 5 years. Decent.

If the trade in offer applies to a phone with no value then that means the price is actually negative now.

If the trade in offer applies to a phone with no value then that means the price is actually negative now.

it has to be a phone with “some” value – the old samsung I had (broken screen, won’t power on) is valued at £5, so with the bump its worth £80 – but if I tried to punt an old 3210 in it’s worth zero -> zero after bonus.

Actual value of a very dead s10 is maybe £20, so its an additional £60 discount I guess? Either way, a good enough upgrade for my wife

I’m going to give it a go. Not sure about the ID/Three signal around ours, but I’ll see and if it’s rubbish I’ll just stick my EE SIM in it. With the various cashbacks and trade-ins it’s worth it just for the phone. All phones come unlocked these days, right, or did I make that up?

That’s what I meant, if you can’t get more than £20 for it anywhere including on eBay or FB then the trade in makes the 7A quasi free if you don’t mind paying for 100gb from Three.

I’ve also gone for this – traded in my Redmi Note 10 Pro which cost £110 in an Amazon PSA on here 2 years ago, for £100 with the added £75.

Over what I was paying monthly, this works out at £8/month more for a new phone and huge allowance.

Thanks OP.

I’m on my second 7a in 3 months as the last one stopped charging so got a new one under warranty. I’m now charging wirelessly but now I get occasional screen freezing. It seems to be little more glitchy than my 4a ever was. Takes great photos though.

I’ve just gone for it. Never used Topcashback before so signed up for that too. They won’t offer me anything for my current Realme 7 Pro but CEX might give me about £60, so that’s not too bad.

Just noticed the extra £75 trade in offer expires tomorrow.

Anyone know if it would still work if I just ordered the phone/contract tomorrow, or do they have to have received the trade in device by then?

Having trouble to get a value on any trade ins. It works on the main site but not when clicked through the offer. Also don’t see this on top cashback only see the pixel 7 family and seems to be a different deal. Can anyone else still get the deal or has it ended

Shame as I wad considering just getting 4 new contracts for the family.

if anyone wants to sell me their 7a for £150 quid ill have it 🙂

Well, I’ve signed up for TCB, ordered the phone and attempted to trade my old Samsung which they’ve valued at £10.

I’ve been on a SIM-only deal for about 6 years.  Hadn’t really been paying attention, and realised today I’m now paying £15.67 a month for it!  So even without any of the extras, this deal is actually cheaper, comes with way more data, and includes a new phone.

Also it made me think – my first phone contract was Everyday 50. It came with a Nokia 3210.  Adjusted for inflation that was about £27pm. So I guess £15pm today for a new phone and more data than I could ever possibly use is a pretty decent deal…

Which tcb link did u go through as I can’t find any for the 7a

Cheers

Carphonewarehouse

https://www.topcashback.co.uk/carphone-warehouse/

Listed at £70 for Pixel 7 family

Posting this on my new Pixel 7a. Seems a nice phone. Camera is decent.

Need to faff around with tcb as it hasn’t tracked for me, but we’ve had that before and they’ve sorted it, so hopefully they do this time as well.

Same here – new phone arrived. Now need a case and screen protector, but it seems good so far.

Cashback not tracked here either…

phone arrived yesterday.  Seems ok so far, though I am already slightly regretting throwing my lot in with Google and its constant prompts to switch on all the data sharing stuff/pay for Backup storage space/yak yak.  OnePlus was more polite in that regard, and also more customisable (you can’t remove or change the giant Google search bar from the Pixel home screen!).

TCB hasn’t tracked yet, and I haven’t had the trade-in envelope to send my old phone off, so I’ll keep an eye out for those.

Still, I’m paying less than I was on my old SIM-only contract, and for far more data too. (Though so far in March I have used 0.2GB of mobile data, so data wasn’t exactly an issue anyway 😆 )

(you can’t remove or change the giant Google search bar from the Pixel home screen!).

You can if you use a launcher. I use Nova.

You can if you use a launcher. I use Nova.

I was looking into that – how easy is it to switch (and switch back if you don’t like it?)

you can’t remove or change the giant Google search bar

I never used to use it but find i now it it quite frequently for quick searches.